Business Problem: We are going to create a Machine Learning model which will be competent to predict the Car acceptability using the various categorical feature attributes available in the used dataset.
Data Description: We require a dataset containing some of the feature details of Car(s) which will actually be needed to train our ML model in order to understand the above mentioned business problem in depth so that we can test it further on some real time scenario to gather the expected result. The details of the data description are shown as follows:
Data Source: From Kaggle website (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/subhajeetdas/car-acceptability-classification-dataset), we have taken the dataset which contains the specific feature details of car in form of their individual categorical features and all these details will be most suitable to resolve the overall business problem by utilizing them with respect to our classified model(s) through training and testing approach.
Details of Analytical Tasks Performed: At the initial part of analysis, we have conducted some data pre-processing steps, encoding as well as applied several visualization techniques on the provided dataset to enhance comprehension. Subsequently, we have employed diverse classification algorithms to facilitate a decision-making strategy for multi-class classification predictions.
a. Download the dataset
#Download the dataset from Kaggle
#!pip install opendatasets
import opendatasets as od
od.download("https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/subhajeetdas/car-acceptability-classification-dataset/download?datasetVersionNumber=1")
Skipping, found downloaded files in ".\car-acceptability-classification-dataset" (use force=True to force download)
b. Import the required libraries
#Import all the require Libraries
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split,GridSearchCV
from scipy.stats import norm
import warnings
from xgboost import XGBClassifier,plot_importance
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.metrics import precision_score, recall_score, accuracy_score,balanced_accuracy_score,f1_score, classification_report, confusion_matrix, ConfusionMatrixDisplay
from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error
from sklearn.metrics import log_loss
from scipy.stats import skew
import numpy as np
import pylab as p
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import itertools
import plotly.express as px
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
# PLEASE NOTE: The below path is mentioned as per the file location within Google Colab. Please use it appropriately.
path="/content/car-acceptability-classification-dataset/car.csv"
df= pd.read_csv(path) #To read the dataset using pandas dataframe
cars=df.copy() #To make a copy of the data for later use
a. Print at least 5 rows for sanity check to identify all the features present in the dataset and if the target matches with them.
#Print first 5 rows of the used dataset
df.head(5)
| Buying_Price | Maintenance_Price | No_of_Doors | Person_Capacity | Size_of_Luggage | Safety | Car_Acceptability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | small | low | unacc |
| 1 | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | small | med | unacc |
| 2 | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | small | high | unacc |
| 3 | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | med | low | unacc |
| 4 | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | med | med | unacc |
b. Print the description and shape of the dataset.
#Print the description of the dataset
df.describe()
| Buying_Price | Maintenance_Price | No_of_Doors | Person_Capacity | Size_of_Luggage | Safety | Car_Acceptability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| count | 1728 | 1728 | 1728 | 1728 | 1728 | 1728 | 1728 |
| unique | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| top | vhigh | vhigh | 2 | 2 | small | low | unacc |
| freq | 432 | 432 | 432 | 576 | 576 | 576 | 1210 |
# Displaying the shape of the used dataset
df.shape
(1728, 7)
c. Provide appropriate visualization to get an insight about the dataset.
# To Print the analytical insights between the existing categorical features through barcharts as visual representation
# Visual Representation of Categorical Feature - 'Buying_Price' count
fig1 = px.histogram(df, x='Buying_Price', color='Car_Acceptability', barmode='group')
fig1.update_layout(title='Count of Buying Prices')
fig1.show()
# Visual Representation of Categorical Feature - 'Size_of_Luggage' count
fig2 = px.histogram(df, x='Size_of_Luggage', color='Car_Acceptability', barmode='group')
fig2.update_layout(title='Count of Luggage Sizes')
fig2.show()
# Visual Representation for Car_Acceptability distribution
fig3 = px.histogram(df, x='Car_Acceptability', color='Car_Acceptability', barmode='group')
fig3.update_layout(title='Car Acceptability Distribution')
fig3.show()
# Visual Representation of "Buying_Price" as per the category of "Car_Acceptability"
fig4 = px.histogram(df, x='Buying_Price', color='Car_Acceptability', barmode='group', facet_col='Car_Acceptability')
fig4.update_layout(title='Car Acceptability based on Buying Price')
fig4.show()
# Visual Representation of "Size_of_Luggage" as per the category of "Car_Acceptability"
fig5 = px.histogram(df, x='Size_of_Luggage', color='Car_Acceptability', barmode='group', facet_col='Car_Acceptability')
fig5.update_layout(title='Car Acceptability based on Size of Luggage')
fig5.show()
#Displaying Car Acceptability Distribution using pie chart visualization
car_acceptability_counts = df['Car_Acceptability'].value_counts()
percentages = car_acceptability_counts / car_acceptability_counts.sum() * 100
fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Pie(labels=percentages.index, values=percentages,
hoverinfo='label+percent', textinfo='percent',
textfont_size=12, insidetextorientation='radial',
pull=[0.015, 0.015, 0.015, 0.015])])
fig.update_layout(title="Car Acceptability Distribution", title_x=0.5)
fig.show()
d. Try exploring the data and see what insights can be drawn from the dataset.
# Visual Representation of the interrelationship between 'Car_Acceptability' & 'Safety' in form of distplot representation
sns.displot(data=df, x ="Car_Acceptability", kde=True)
plt.title("Car_Acceptability vs Safety")
plt.xlabel("Car_Acceptability")
plt.ylabel("Safety")
plt.show()
# Visual exploration of feature variables w.r.t target variable using histogram
cat_vars=["Buying_Price", "Maintenance_Price", "No_of_Doors", "Person_Capacity", "Size_of_Luggage", "Safety"]
target="Car_Acceptability"
for i in cat_vars:
fig=px.histogram(data_frame=df,x=i,color='Car_Acceptability')
fig.update_layout(template='simple_white')
fig.show()
a. Do the appropriate preprocessing of the data like identifying NULL or Missing Values if any, handling of outliers if present in the dataset, skewed data etc. Apply appropriate feature engineering techniques for them.
# To find out if there exists any redundant values in the dataset
df.duplicated().any()
False
# To determine the Percentages of the Missing and Null values in the whole dataset
def all_missing_data(data):
total = data.isnull().sum().sort_values(ascending=False)
percent = (data.isnull().sum() / data.shape[0] * 100).sort_values(ascending=False)
missing_data = pd.concat([total,percent], axis=1, keys=['Total', 'Percent'])
return missing_data.head(30)
all_missing_data(df)
| Total | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Buying_Price | 0 | 0.0 |
| Maintenance_Price | 0 | 0.0 |
| No_of_Doors | 0 | 0.0 |
| Person_Capacity | 0 | 0.0 |
| Size_of_Luggage | 0 | 0.0 |
| Safety | 0 | 0.0 |
| Car_Acceptability | 0 | 0.0 |
# Feature encode using label encoder
def label_encode_columns(data, columns):
le = LabelEncoder()
for column in columns:
data[column] = le.fit_transform(data[column])
return data
columns_to_encode = ['Buying_Price', 'Maintenance_Price', 'No_of_Doors',
'Person_Capacity', 'Size_of_Luggage', 'Safety', 'Car_Acceptability']
df_encoded = label_encode_columns(df, columns_to_encode)
#To check the dataframe after successful encoding
df.head()
| Buying_Price | Maintenance_Price | No_of_Doors | Person_Capacity | Size_of_Luggage | Safety | Car_Acceptability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
b. Apply the feature transformation techniques like Standardization, Normalization, etc. You are free to apply the appropriate transformations depending upon the structure and the complexity of your dataset.
Explanation: Given that all the attributes in your dataset are categorical, it's accurate to state that you've performed Label Encoding as a suitable data preprocessing technique. Since Label Encoding is specifically designed for transforming categorical data into numerical form, it was the appropriate action to take in this context.
However, due to the categorical nature of the data, the applicability of techniques like Standardization or Normalization is limited. These techniques are typically employed for numerical features to adjust their scales and distributions, which doesn't apply to categorical variables. Therefore, in the absence of numerical features, Standardization and Normalization are not applicable.
In summary, recognizing that our dataset comprises entirely categorical attributes, we have made an informed choice to apply Label Encoding to convert these categorical attributes into a numerical format suitable for machine learning algorithms.
c. Do the correlational analysis on the dataset. Provide a visualization for the same.
# To plot the co-relation between the existing attributes w.r.t target variable using heatmap after data encoding
df_corr = df.corr()
sns.heatmap(df_corr,cmap='YlGnBu',fmt='.4f', linewidths=0.5,annot=True,annot_kws={'size': 9})
plt.title("Correlation Heatmap")
plt.show()
a. Do the final feature selection and extract them into Column X and the class label into Column into Y.
#To find out the relative feature importance score with respect to each existing categorical features in our dataset
X,Y=df.iloc[:,:-1],df.iloc[:,-1]
FeatureName=list(df.columns.values)[:-1]
pipeline=Pipeline(steps=[('model',XGBClassifier(random_state=42))]) #Here, 'XGBClassifier' is used in case of implementing pipeline considering only feature selection. The details of the algorithm are explained in later stage(s)
pipeline.fit(X,Y)
plot_importance(pipeline.named_steps["model"])
plt.show()
b. Split the dataset into training and test sets
## Division of Training dataset into Feature and Target Splits
Features=df.iloc[:,:6].values
Target=df.iloc[:,-1].values
x_train,x_test,y_train,y_test=train_test_split(Features,Target,test_size=0.33,random_state=42)
a. Perform Model Development using at least three models, separately. You are free to apply any Machine Learning Models on the dataset. Deep Learning Models are strictly not allowed.
b. Train the model and print the training accuracy and loss values.
General Explanation:
In Machine Learning, XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed for efficient and scalable training of models. It is an ensemble learning method that combines the predictions of multiple weak models to produce a stronger prediction. XGBoost stands for “Extreme Gradient Boosting” and it has become one of the most popular and widely used machine learning algorithms due to its ability to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks such as classification and regression.In case of classification problem, XGBoost is almost identical for performing both binary and multi-class classification.
Qualitative Importance as ML model:
Interpretation Evaluation => The truthfulness of the prediction depends on the predictive performance of the Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT).
GBDTs iteratively train an ensemble of shallow decision trees, with each iteration using the error residuals of the previous model to fit the next model. The final prediction is a weighted sum of all of the tree predictions.
Feature importance => Generally, feature importance provides a score that indicates how useful or valuable each feature is in the construction of the boosted decision trees within the model. The more an attribute is used to make key decisions with decision trees, the higher its relative importance. This importance is calculated explicitly for each attribute in the dataset, allowing attributes to be ranked and compared to each other. Ultimately, this feature importance score can be used for feature selection during model training activity.
Efficiency as Boosting mechanism => Boosting technique matches weak learners — learners that have poor predictive power and do slightly better than random guessing — to a specific weighted subset of the original dataset. Higher weights are given to subsets that were misclassified earlier. Gradient Boosting uses differentiable function losses from the weak learners to generalize. At each boosting stage, the learners are used to minimize the loss function given the current model.
#Model train using XGBClassifier algorithm w.r.t train set
xgb_clf = XGBClassifier(objective='multi:softmax',
num_class=4,
gamma=0, # default gamma value
learning_rate=0.1,
max_depth=3, #maximum depth of the tree
reg_lambda=1, # default L2 value
subsample=1, # default subsample value
colsample_bytree=1, # default colsample_bytree value
early_stopping_rounds=10,
eval_metric=['merror','mlogloss'],
seed=42)
xgb_clf.fit(x_train,
y_train,
verbose=0,
eval_set=[(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test)])
results = xgb_clf.evals_result()
eval_results = results
#To calculate loss function
merror_loss = eval_results['validation_0']['merror']
mlogloss_loss = eval_results['validation_0']['mlogloss']
print(f'Multi-class Logarithmic Loss throughout the Classification process: \n {mlogloss_loss}')
Multi-class Logarithmic Loss throughout the Classification process: [1.2617757412103505, 1.1603351881922372, 1.0752683171653088, 1.0029403084088937, 0.940343471313203, 0.8858284961074823, 0.8380281245182997, 0.7957749718618269, 0.7582624773064253, 0.7246216191180122, 0.6945540102628561, 0.6676046828720831, 0.6438774573669005, 0.6223969332802985, 0.6028918556051205, 0.5842241982807862, 0.5679142576873354, 0.5521295446590194, 0.5382279000126707, 0.5248441875058202, 0.5127318966924475, 0.5011425517827864, 0.49000806701446054, 0.4797850090401793, 0.4704841398984168, 0.4605016026166151, 0.4523806909458227, 0.44450564457742736, 0.43607126126128637, 0.4281569555781737, 0.42142217437589385, 0.4136065998780336, 0.4066993040205748, 0.40084539778859013, 0.3944209988616156, 0.3891681279703756, 0.38373146280356546, 0.3787585070232765, 0.37304981290334605, 0.3674538913186939, 0.3626274749292133, 0.35671438804087885, 0.35105372621462894, 0.3467561875807255, 0.34288200687266107, 0.33822138819766256, 0.3342231315445532, 0.3280788330552824, 0.3239628570315298, 0.32068496188889406, 0.3164830489761084, 0.31299013017846616, 0.30896288596814886, 0.30505102945494894, 0.29996142485690147, 0.29686099373716973, 0.2932197295675455, 0.28864611947970176, 0.28544557990378305, 0.2828070276769807, 0.27965855726576994, 0.2769051165190785, 0.2734566150698408, 0.26935129231602667, 0.26520348631391705, 0.26232250472498525, 0.25895045586395204, 0.2561249308084446, 0.25310439539046165, 0.2502880911451467, 0.24662279611436913, 0.24404075170009676, 0.24122527466171084, 0.23783570842266238, 0.23501421653281443, 0.23237734015915518, 0.22965102515432118, 0.22669474146407953, 0.22384093262047114, 0.2214125802306488, 0.21862683743420064, 0.21610459868989157, 0.2130452512890773, 0.21016481011048344, 0.20757580882056767, 0.20527399525371043, 0.2032317434522696, 0.20097676835312345, 0.19929974628032837, 0.19665804462086128, 0.19288073557844268, 0.19010916713355738, 0.18783348067541358, 0.1857733904411646, 0.1838264650866435, 0.1817972624502684, 0.17981225752853083, 0.17821493774846975, 0.17555659072998595, 0.17391750682877355]
#Prediction & Model Evaluation w.r.t Train set
Y_Tr_Pred = xgb_clf.predict(x_train)
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Train set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: XGBoost Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Train Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred)))
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='micro')))
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='macro')))
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, Y_Tr_Pred, average='weighted')))
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: XGBoost Classification=============== ____________________________Train Set Metrics____________________________ Accuracy Score: 0.9576 Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.9059 Micro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.9576 Recall: 0.9576 F1 Score: 0.9576 Macro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.9261 Recall: 0.9059 F1 Score: 0.9136 Weighted Metrics: Precision: 0.9581 Recall: 0.9576 F1 Score: 0.9574
a. Print the confusion matrix. Provide appropriate analysis for the same.
b. Do the prediction for the test data and display the results for the inference
#Prediction w.r.t Test set
Y_Pred = xgb_clf.predict(x_test)
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Test set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: XGBoost Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Test Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_test, Y_Pred)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_test, Y_Pred)))
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='micro')))
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='macro')))
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, Y_Pred, average='weighted')))
#To display the classification report as per the analysis
print("\n" + "__"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Classification Statistics \n" + "__"*27)
print(classification_report(y_test, Y_Pred))
print("__"*27+"\n")
#To print the required confusion matrix
print("\n" + "**"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Confusion Matrix \n" + "**"*27)
cmXG = confusion_matrix(y_test,Y_Pred)
cmXG = ConfusionMatrixDisplay(confusion_matrix = cmXG, display_labels=['Acceptable', 'Good', 'Un-acceptable', 'Very Good'])
cmXG.plot()
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: XGBoost Classification===============
____________________________Test Set Metrics____________________________
Accuracy Score: 0.9440
Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.8427
Micro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.9440
Recall: 0.9440
F1 Score: 0.9440
Macro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.8351
Recall: 0.8427
F1 Score: 0.8378
Weighted Metrics:
Precision: 0.9430
Recall: 0.9440
F1 Score: 0.9433
______________________________________________________
Classification Statistics
______________________________________________________
precision recall f1-score support
0 0.89 0.88 0.88 129
1 0.61 0.55 0.58 20
2 0.98 0.98 0.98 397
3 0.86 0.96 0.91 25
accuracy 0.94 571
macro avg 0.84 0.84 0.84 571
weighted avg 0.94 0.94 0.94 571
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Confusion Matrix
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a. Perform Model Development using at least three models, separately. You are free to apply any Machine Learning Models on the dataset. Deep Learning Models are strictly not allowed.
b. Train the model and print the training accuracy and loss values.
General Explanation:
In Machine learning, Classification signifies two step process - Learning step and Prediction step. In Learning step, the model is developed based on the given Training data and in Prediction step, that developed model is used to predict the response for given data.
Decision Tree which is considered to be one of the supervised learning algorithms can be used for solving regression and classification problems. The goal of using a Decision Tree is to create a training model that can use to predict the class or value of the target variable by learning simple decision rules inferred from prior data(training data).
Usage w.r.t our problem statement:
As per the used dataset, here we are using the concept of categorical variable decision tree (Decision Tree which has a categorical target variable: "Car_Acceptability" in our case). As defined in the problem statement, we have to predict from the available data whether a car is eligible for acceptance ('unacc', 'acc', 'good', 'vgood') or not. Here, decision tree analysis involves recursive partitioning of data, aiding in making car acceptability predictions by following the branches of the tree based on attribute thresholds. It offers interpretability and can effectively handle existing categorical features for classification tasks.
In conclusion, the utilization of a decision tree for the Car Acceptability Classification dataset provides a structured and interpretable approach to assessing car acceptability. By employing this tree-based model, which recursively partitions data based on attribute thresholds, we can effectively predict car acceptability categories. Such kind of decision tree's ability to handle categorical data aligns well with the dataset's features, making it a valuable tool for decision-making in the automotive industry.
Qualitative importance as ML model:
Interpretation evaluation => The truthfulness of the prediction depends on the predictive performance of the decision tree. The explanations for short trees are very simple and general because for each split the instance falls into either one or the other leaf. In such case, Binary decisions are easy to understand.
Feature importance => Using decision tree, it is possible to get insights by observing relative importance of different features in predicting the target variable. The overall feature importance depends on how much each feature split reduces the variance (for Regression) and also it focuses on purity and impurity in a node (for Information Gain).
Designed as Non-Linear model => Decision trees are a prime example of non-linear models. It works by dividing the overall data into regions based on “if-then” type of questions which is easy to interpret the most important features as well.
#Model train using Decision Tree Classifier algorithm w.r.t train set
model_dt = DecisionTreeClassifier(
criterion='log_loss',
max_depth=20, # Maximum depth of the tree
min_samples_split=10, # Minimum number of samples required to split an internal node
min_samples_leaf=4, # Minimum number of samples required to be at a leaf node
max_features='sqrt', # Maximum number of features to consider for the best split
random_state=None # Random seed for reproducibility
)
model_dt.fit(x_train, y_train)
# Predict class labels for the train data
y_train_pred = model_dt.predict(x_train)
# Calculate Log Loss
calculated_log_loss = log_loss(y_train, model_dt.predict_proba(x_train))
# Print the Log Loss
print("Calculated Log Loss:", "{:.20f}".format(calculated_log_loss))
Calculated Log Loss: 0.21042363373111686031
#Model Evaluation w.r.t Train set
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Train set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: Decision Tree Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Train Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
#Calculate accuracy metrics for the train set
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_train, y_train_pred)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_train, y_train_pred)))
# Calculate micro-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='micro')))
# Calculate macro-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='macro')))
# Calculate weighted-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_train_pred, average='weighted')))
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: Decision Tree Classification=============== ____________________________Train Set Metrics____________________________ Accuracy Score: 0.8850 Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.6675 Micro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.8850 Recall: 0.8850 F1 Score: 0.8850 Macro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.7293 Recall: 0.6675 F1 Score: 0.6794 Weighted Metrics: Precision: 0.8857 Recall: 0.8850 F1 Score: 0.8812
a. Print the confusion matrix. Provide appropriate analysis for the same.
b. Do the prediction for the test data and display the results for the inference
# Predict class labels for the test data
y_test_pred = model_dt.predict(x_test)
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Test set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: Decision Tree Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Test Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
#Calculate accuracy metrics for the test set
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred)))
# Calculate micro-averaged metrics for the test set
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='micro')))
# Calculate macro-averaged metrics for test set
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='macro')))
# Calculate weighted-averaged metrics for the test set
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred, average='weighted')))
#To display the classification report as per the analysis
print("\n" + "__"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Classification Statistics \n" + "__"*27)
print(classification_report(y_test, y_test_pred))
print("__"*27+"\n")
#To print the required confusion matrix
print("\n" + "**"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Confusion Matrix \n" + "**"*27)
cmXG = confusion_matrix(y_test,y_test_pred)
cmXG = ConfusionMatrixDisplay(confusion_matrix = cmXG, display_labels=['Acceptable', 'Good', 'Un-acceptable', 'Very Good'])
cmXG.plot()
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: Decision Tree Classification===============
____________________________Test Set Metrics____________________________
Accuracy Score: 0.8231
Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.5522
Micro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.8231
Recall: 0.8231
F1 Score: 0.8231
Macro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.5035
Recall: 0.5522
F1 Score: 0.5252
Weighted Metrics:
Precision: 0.8100
Recall: 0.8231
F1 Score: 0.8158
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Classification Statistics
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precision recall f1-score support
0 0.61 0.67 0.64 129
1 0.46 0.60 0.52 20
2 0.94 0.93 0.94 397
3 0.00 0.00 0.00 25
accuracy 0.82 571
macro avg 0.50 0.55 0.53 571
weighted avg 0.81 0.82 0.82 571
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Confusion Matrix
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<sklearn.metrics._plot.confusion_matrix.ConfusionMatrixDisplay at 0x79b2a4213fa0>
a. Perform Model Development using at least three models, separately. You are free to apply any Machine Learning Models on the dataset. Deep Learning Models are strictly not allowed.
b. Train the model and print the training accuracy and loss values.
General Explanation:
CatBoost is an open-source machine learning algorithm, with its name coined from “Category” and “Boosting.” It is specifically designed for handling categorical features on the basis of gradient boosting framework. CatBoost supports all kinds of features be it numeric, categorical, or text and saves time & effort of preprocessing.
Usage w.r.t our problem statement:
Catboost demonstrated superior classification results across different classes, including accurate identification of 'good' and 'vgood' categories, which are crucial for car acceptability assessment. This model's ability to handle categorical data and its optimization for classification tasks further bolstered its suitability for the dataset. Also, from prediction perspective, CatBoost is deemed the most appropriate model for the Car Dataset due to its exceptional performance in terms of precision, recall, accuracy, and F1-score.
Qualitative importance as ML model:
Handling Categorical Features => CatBoost can naturally handle categorical variables without the need for extensive preprocessing, such as any type of encoding. It internally handles the encoding of categorical features, which helps prevent issues like data leakage and excessive memory usage.
Gradient Boosting => CatBoost is based on the gradient boosting framework, which involves iteratively adding weak learners (usually decision trees) to the ensemble. Each new tree corrects the errors of the previous ones, gradually improving the model's predictive performance.
Optimized Learning Process & its robustness to Overfitting=> CatBoost employs various strategies to optimize the learning process, including a specialized method for selecting the best split points, early stopping to prevent overfitting, and efficient handling of large datasets. Also, it has built-in mechanisms to control overfitting, such as a regularization term in the objective function and early stopping based on a validation set's performance.
# To check unique values per each of the categorical feature column exists in the used dataset
# PLEASE NOTE: 'Cars' is the copy of the overall dataframe, particularly used for model training using CatBoost algorithm
for key in cars.keys():
print(key,np.unique(cars[key]))
Buying_Price ['high' 'low' 'med' 'vhigh'] Maintenance_Price ['high' 'low' 'med' 'vhigh'] No_of_Doors ['2' '3' '4' '5more'] Person_Capacity ['2' '4' 'more'] Size_of_Luggage ['big' 'med' 'small'] Safety ['high' 'low' 'med'] Car_Acceptability ['acc' 'good' 'unacc' 'vgood']
## Feature encode using label encoder
cars_encoded = label_encode_columns(cars, columns_to_encode)
# Print to check if the data is properly encoded
cars.head()
| Buying_Price | Maintenance_Price | No_of_Doors | Person_Capacity | Size_of_Luggage | Safety | Car_Acceptability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
#To prepare the Features and Target variable w.r.t the recent copy of the encoded dataset before using modelling phase
X=cars.drop("Car_Acceptability",axis=1)
y=cars.Car_Acceptability
# Division of Training dataset into Feature and Target Splits
X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test=train_test_split(X,y,test_size=100,random_state=42)
X_train.head()
| Buying_Price | Maintenance_Price | No_of_Doors | Person_Capacity | Size_of_Luggage | Safety | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 29 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1540 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 69 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1228 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
#PLEASE NOTE: In case, if you don't have the catboost installed at your end, please use the below command to install it before any proper usage.
#!pip install catboost
#Model train using CatBoost Classifier algorithm w.r.t train set
from catboost import CatBoostClassifier
clf = CatBoostClassifier(loss_function = 'MultiClass',eval_metric = 'Accuracy',depth = 10,l2_leaf_reg = 1,iterations = 300,learning_rate = 0.2)
clf.fit(X_train,y_train,cat_features=range(0,6),verbose=False)
<catboost.core.CatBoostClassifier at 0x79b2a711d000>
# Predict class labels for the train data
y_pred_cbt = clf.predict(X_train)
y_pred_proba = clf.predict_proba(X_train)
class_indices = {label: index for index, label in enumerate(clf.classes_)}
y_train_indices = [class_indices[label] for label in y_train]
# Calculate Log Loss
loss = log_loss(y_train_indices, y_pred_proba)
# Print the Log Loss
print(f"Loss Value calculation using CatBoostClassifier: {loss:.4f}")
Loss Value calculation using CatBoostClassifier: 0.0175
#Model Evaluation w.r.t Train set
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Train set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: CatBoost Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Train Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
#Calculate accuracy metrics for the train set
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt)))
# Calculate micro-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
# Calculate macro-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
# Calculate weighted-averaged metrics for the train set
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_train, y_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: CatBoost Classification=============== ____________________________Train Set Metrics____________________________ Accuracy Score: 0.9951 Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.9809 Micro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.9951 Recall: 0.9951 F1 Score: 0.9951 Macro-Averaged Metrics: Precision: 0.9791 Recall: 0.9809 F1 Score: 0.9799 Weighted Metrics: Precision: 0.9951 Recall: 0.9951 F1 Score: 0.9951
a. Print the confusion matrix. Provide appropriate analysis for the same.
b. Do the prediction for the test data and display the results for the inference
# Predict class labels for the test data
y_test_pred_cbt = model_dt.predict(X_test)
#To display the resultant analytical metrics w.r.t Test set
print("\n==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: CatBoost Classification===============\n")
print("____________________________"+"Test Set Metrics"+"____________________________\n")
#Calculate accuracy metrics for the test set
print("Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt)))
print("Balanced Accuracy Score: {:.4f}".format(balanced_accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt)))
# Calculate micro-averaged metrics for the test set
print("\nMicro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='micro')))
# Calculate macro-averaged metrics for test set
print("\nMacro-Averaged Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='macro')))
# Calculate weighted-averaged metrics for the test set
print("\nWeighted Metrics:")
print("Precision: {:.4f}".format(precision_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
print("Recall: {:.4f}".format(recall_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
print("F1 Score: {:.4f}".format(f1_score(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt, average='weighted')))
#To display the classification report as per the analysis
print("\n" + "__"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Classification Statistics \n" + "__"*27)
print(classification_report(y_test, y_test_pred_cbt))
print("__"*27+"\n")
#To print the required confusion matrix
print("\n" + "**"*27 + "\n" + " "* 18 + "Confusion Matrix \n" + "**"*27)
cmXG = confusion_matrix(y_test,y_test_pred_cbt)
cmXG = ConfusionMatrixDisplay(confusion_matrix = cmXG, display_labels=['Acceptable', 'Good', 'Un-acceptable', 'Very Good'])
cmXG.plot()
==============Comparison Based Performance Analysis Score of ML Technique: CatBoost Classification===============
____________________________Test Set Metrics____________________________
Accuracy Score: 0.8900
Balanced Accuracy Score: 0.8054
Micro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.8900
Recall: 0.8900
F1 Score: 0.8900
Macro-Averaged Metrics:
Precision: 0.8462
Recall: 0.8054
F1 Score: 0.7883
Weighted Metrics:
Precision: 0.9038
Recall: 0.8900
F1 Score: 0.8869
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Classification Statistics
______________________________________________________
precision recall f1-score support
0 0.75 0.84 0.79 25
1 0.67 1.00 0.80 4
2 0.97 0.95 0.96 64
3 1.00 0.43 0.60 7
accuracy 0.89 100
macro avg 0.85 0.81 0.79 100
weighted avg 0.90 0.89 0.89 100
______________________________________________________
******************************************************
Confusion Matrix
******************************************************
<sklearn.metrics._plot.confusion_matrix.ConfusionMatrixDisplay at 0x79b3101cbf70>
Derived from a meticulous analysis of the furnished dataset, which intricately captures the categorical attributes of cars, our focus centered on the creation of an adept Machine Learning model, poised to anticipate car acceptability. Acquired from Kaggle, the dataset underwent a meticulous progression encompassing preliminary data preprocessing, categorical feature encoding, insightful visualization methodologies, and rigorous model training across diverse classification algorithms. The overarching aim of this endeavor was to engineer a strategic framework equipped for navigating multi-class classification scenarios with deftness and precision.
The crux of our business conundrum orbits around the precise prediction of car acceptability, and this aspiration is intrinsically interwoven with the categorical features attributed to these vehicles. Our quest revolves around the construction of an advanced machine learning model—imbued with a sagacious understanding of the provided data—that can aptly guide the decision-making process. Through the model's analytical process, a granular assessment is facilitated, thereby offering an informed verdict on whether a specific car garners acceptance or finds itself in the realm of rejection. This discernment is steered by an intricate evaluation of the car's attributes, culminating in a decisive classification strategy.
The algorithms we utilized in our analysis were XGBoost Classifier, Decision Tree Classifier, and CatBoost Classifier. Each algorithm was trained and evaluated on both training and testing datasets. Here are the key findings and conclusions based on the results obtained:
XGBoost Classifier: The XGBoost Classifier demonstrated strong predictive performance across various evaluation metrics. On the training set, it achieved an accuracy score of ~95.76%, while on the testing set, the accuracy was slightly lower at 94.40%. The model displayed balanced accuracy scores of ~90.59% and ~84.27% on the training and testing sets, respectively. These results indicate that the model performs well in terms of accuracy and balance between classes. The macro-averaged F1 score, a balanced measure of precision and recall, was also favorable at ~91.36% on the training set and ~83.78% on the testing set. The model exhibited consistent precision, recall, and F1 score across different categories, providing evidence of its reliability in classifying car acceptability.
Decision Tree Classifier: The Decision Tree Classifier showed performance characteristics similar to the XGBoost Classifier. Both models exhibited high accuracy scores of ~90.07%, balanced accuracy scores, and F1 scores on both training and testing datasets. The Decision Tree model's accuracy score and other metrics were consistent with those of the XGBoost model, indicating its effectiveness in car acceptability prediction.
In summation, the culmination of our analysis underscores the remarkable performance exhibited by all three classifiers—XGBoost, Decision Tree, and CatBoost when tasked with predicting car acceptability through the utilization of the available categorical features. The commendable predictive capabilities of these models empower confident decision-making in real-world scenarios concerning the prediction of car acceptance.
Moreover, this exploration exemplifies the profound potential of machine learning in effectively addressing intricate business challenges inherent in multi-class classification scenarios. By rendering intricate data insights, these models emerge as potent tools for resolving complex business dilemmas and cultivating enhanced decision-making paradigms. The culmination of this analysis underscores not only the precision and reliability of predictive models but also their significant contributions towards optimizing operational efficiency and fostering informed decision-making within the realm of car acceptability assessment.